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Office of Research IT

Office of Research IT

The Office of Research Information Technology group (OR IT), now part of OIT,  goes well beyond managing servers and sustaining a robust IT infrastructure for administration of campus research.  The entire process of shepherding research proposals from initial review, through Contracts and Grants, and finally to the various funding agencies is handled [...]

High Speed Academic Networking

The Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC — http://www.cenic.org/)  and UC have been discussing a possible new network infrastructure.  The intent is to facilitate ad-hoc, point-to-point, gigabit research network connections among UC campuses and other institutions (including Stanford and USC) connected to CENIC’s High Performance Research (HPR) Network.
This new infrastructure would [...]